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Issue Details

Issue #80
Published August 1948
Cover Price 0.10 USD
Pages 52
Editing Whitney Ellsworth (credited editor); Robert Kanigher (actual editor)

Cover Details - "The Swinging Scimitar"

Genre superhero
Pencils Harry G. Peter?
Inks Harry G. Peter?

12 page Wonder Woman story "The Swinging Scimitar"

Characters Wonder Woman; Don Enrago; Etta Candy; Holliday Girls; Marcia
Synopsis One of the Holliday Girls fencing squad appears to go crazy and begin leading a criminal gang.
Genre superhero
Script Robert Kanigher
Pencils Harry G. Peter (signed)
Inks Harry G. Peter

1 page Old Nick In The Nick of Time advertisement "At The Midget Auto Races"

6 page Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys story "No Time For Crime"

Characters Little Boy Blue; Toughy; Tubby; Sheridan; Prodd
Synopsis The Blue Boys battle crime in a factory full of giant labor saving devices.
Genre superhero; children
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry
Notes credits by Jerry Bails

1 page Adventures of Sam Spade; Wildroot Cream Oil advertisement "The Man With the Purple Hand"

Characters Sam Spade; Effie
Pencils Lou Fine

1 page Funny Facts filler

Genre fact
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes credits by Jerry Bails

5 page Sargon the Sorceror story "The Cage of Lightning"

Characters Sargon; Miss Morevilt; Voltini
Synopsis Sargon is hired to magically cut the Morevilt Diamond. but Voltini would rather steal it, and all the other Morevilt diamonds to boot.
Genre supernatural
Pencils Paul Reinman
Inks Paul Reinman

1 page Ma Nature's Curiosity Shop filler

Genre fact
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes credits by Jerry Bails

6 page Willy NIlly story "Be Your Own Private Eye"

Characters Willy Nilly; Betty; Dexter Dumwood
Synopsis Willy is upset because Betty made a date with Dexter Dumwood.
Genre teen humor
Pencils Frank Harry
Inks Frank Harry

1 page Science Snaps filler

Genre fact
Script Martin Naydel
Pencils Martin Naydel
Inks Martin Naydel
Notes credits by Jerry Bails

2 page text article "Mount Everest- Giant of the Globe"

Genre fact
Script Ted Udall [as Charles King]
Letters typeset

7 page Wildcat story "The Menace of Sound"

Characters Wildcat; Rex Velon; Professor Rell; his daughter
Synopsis Rex Velon kidnaps Prof Rell's daughter to force him to tell him the secret of using sound waves to paralyze people.
Genre superhero
Pencils Arthur Peddy
Notes credits by Jerry Bails

1 page Margaret O'Brien, Prince Company advertisement "At a Hollywood Party"

Characters Margaret O'Brien
Synopsis Margaret shows you how to make your own candy with the Margaret O'Brien candy kitchen.